i'm planning to do more of these types of long posts, where i start the writing, update it on a weekly basis and publish at the end of every month. the sole reason being i can stay consistent with my journaling, document my thoughts (which could be highly subjective) and reflect on how i’ve changed in the future.
You are the light
It's not on you, it's in you
Don't you ever in your m*therf**king life dim your light for nobody
- St. Chroma - Tyler the creator
after last month’s introspection life has been quite well, but not forget that i haven’t been able to completely keep up with all the goals i set for the months before new year.
to be specific, i tried to go on evening walks everyday after coming home from college but haven’t been consistent with it. soft launched myself to ML by learning tidbits of data science. most importantly, i feel like i am successfully limiting others’ influence and opinions.
week 1
i finished off trackker within a 7 day sprint, i was inspired by a solopreneur i met on reddit - dude runs a solo software agency and ships MVPs within 2-3 weeks. i was building it as a microproject for one of my friend, we both participated in college’s microproject competition (with diff teams) i stood as 1st runner up in my department (computer engineering) but it was hard luck for him. moreover i was extremely happy over how i pitched to the jury during competition, it was a banger, she was impressed.
i also got into a discord community that consists a lot of cracked students and developers in tech where i was able to get product validation for lettr0.
but on a different note, during my usual commute today morning, I saw some poor folks at the railway station. I often witness this but always feel uncertain about how to help mostly because I feel i am nowhere to being near accomplished in life to start giving back.
moreover it was the realisation that “success is limited to those who are privileged”. if i never had access to internet or laptop where would i be? probably not documenting this. it reminded me MC kode’s verse on nazaare by teck, where he perfectly addresses this issue.
translation:
I couldn’t even imagine where they would go -
For those whom the world makes no space,
For some, this world is nothing but a punishment.
Songs of the week:
- There is a light that never goes out - The smiths
- st. chroma - Tyler, the creator (feat. daniel caesar)
week 2
"the grass is always greener on the other side"
- Riya Kohli
(context)
This week was full adrenaline, back to back prelims and exams. luckily enough studied for each of them the night before.
between exams i had been researching around cloud, containerisation and a little web3 too. something i noted here is that in the present time the abundance of resources is at its peak, you have access to tons of information (especially due to the "ai revolution") and digital content in the forms of videos, courses, ebooks etc. the only limitation is obsession, i feel obsession always overrules talent. you can be god gifted with some skill but still not be able to achieve what you want just because you are not obsessed.
its kind of like the quote in the start, we always look up to the people doing better than us, while the fact is that there are people who look up to us even though we don't feel like we are doing good enough. and for the people that we look up to, they've got other people that they look up to as well. its a weird paradox, we end up comparing our behind the scenes with someone's highlight reels
the movie whiplash conveys this message the best. see it wasn't fletcher's harsh behaviour but andrew's raw obsession towards his art that helped him reach his full potential as a drummer. his life might have been a boring one but he was at least content and fully immersed in his grind, knowing that was all he needed to achieve what he wanted.
Songs of the week:
- either on or off the drugs - jpegmafia
- uuuu - steve lacy
week 3
despite all the academic chaos, life has started to feel back on track. due to preparation leave i have successfully been able to go on evening walks.
went to play valorant one day after college, on the way back we stopped by a local food chain to get burger, the shop manager was a 24 yr old, 10th grade dropout - we all joking asked for a life advice, all he said was: "when i was in 10th, my school was for 255 days and i only attended 75 days"
i finally completed blockchain basics course from cyfrin updraft, it was a great course plus free of cost, going to take a break from web3 before diving into the solidity course.
following up on the same pace, i opened PRs for 2 issues on zerops' docs, will be contributing to open source more (im seriously out of project ideas). i submitted indielettr on acquire.com, its still awaiting approval, i just want to start working on lettr0 might even launch a stealth marketing page next week.
another bright update is that i applied for fellowship.ai's fellowship, going to develop sentiment analysis model for the nlp challenge, got good expectations from this one so hoping to get accepted!
also visited kalyan this week and while roaming around saw this board on a residence, asked a local shopkeeper about its authenticity and even searched wikipedia, it indeed turned out to be true that dr. anandi gopal was born and lived in kalyan during her early life. crazy how i despite living in kalyan for 15 years was unaware that this board existed.
songs of the week:
- tailor swif - a$ap rocky
- something about you - eyedress, dent may
week 4
not much to share this week, been caught up with practical exams. wne3 had its incubation pitch with IIM Vizag, unfortunately i wasn't able to attend it, i was 3-5 mins late to join the meeting. i had my practical viva and the external was 2 hrs late, still she had the audacity to sit there with an attitude and conduct the viva for 20-25 mins for every group of 5 students. crazy how some people are overly self-centered.
became ML co-domain head in college's tech committee. also ideated a new product, its codenamed project celestia lets hope i manage to ship it someday. another bright update being i finally completed fellowship.ai's challenge, will record the video soon and submit it.
Link to the challenge solution
still struggling to get around ML jargons (vectors, corpuses etc.) but i promise to write a blog going over my solution if i get selected!
next month's schedule is a bit stringent due to endsems so not sure if i'll really do another writing like this for the next month but the grind won't stop fs. i redeemed datacamp's offer from github edu last night so gotta become an ML engineer in the next 3 months xd.
songs of the week
- crew love - drake (ft. the weeknd)
- luther - kendrick lamar (ft. sza)
peace!<3